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Post by walt00 on Feb 11, 2014 15:12:08 GMT
Any one remember the Year that Dale Forty was on fire think it was sometime late 50's ?? Wal...............
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Post by planetmalc on Feb 13, 2014 18:06:30 GMT
That particular photo shows the aftermath of the Littlewoods fire in the late 50's(?) which I watched 'live' from roughly the same spot where that photo was taken. The ladders were put up against Dale Forty's to allow firefighters onto its roof where they could better fight the Littlewoods blaze. The Dale Forty fire was over 20 years later, after Littlewoods had ceased trading next door.
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Post by pedro42 on Feb 13, 2014 23:13:27 GMT
We must have been standing next to each other Planetmalc
Regards
Pete
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Post by planetmalc on Feb 14, 2014 16:25:26 GMT
IIRC, Vince was there as well, Pete. It's amazing how quickly the word got round the grapevine (no-one had a phone in those days) that Littlewoods was ablaze!
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